Anyone for kale chips? Year 5 harvest and plan next steps

 Today Year Five began their E4S lesson by harvesting kale and taste testing kale chips.  So easy to grow and so easy to make!

We also reflected on our learning journey so far and planned our next steps.  We're going to be focusing on the estuary next, so we recorded what we already knew, what we wondered, who could help up us and our experiences with the estuary.  Check out our mahi here.

Next time we are going to be visited by an expert from Watercare to help assess the health of our estuary.

Year Four Reflect

 Today Year Four reflected on our Education for Sustainability journey.  We read a story, article and poem about other school's environment actions and used these to compare and contrast.

Afterwards we went to our Mara Kai and harvested fresh healthy silver beet.  It was delicious.

Lastly, we mulched the native bush walk.

See you in 2025 Year 4!

 

Year 6 Annual Water Testing with WaterCare

 Today, we were fortunate enough to have Kathryn from Watercare come work with our Year 6's to test the water quality of our estuary.  We learnt about the factors that can harm our estuary such as litter, car oil, detergent, concrete making and fertiliser run off.

Next we tested water samples and observed macro water invertebrates. The other half of the class picked up litter and hunted land invertebrates.  Sadly so much plastic litter had blown into our native bush walk. A big thank you to all the Whanau who make the extra effort to pack a litterfree lunch. 

Next lesson we will analyse our results and compare them with last year.

Room 26 Investigate where kai comes from

 Today Room 26 compared and contrasted growing food in our school Mara Kai and the kai we buy at the supermarket.  We read 'Kumara Behind the Scenes'  to see the journey of kumara from market garden to supermarket.  There were lots of workers, machinery, trucks and packaging. Then went to the Mara Kai and planted tipu so we will have delicious kumara to dig up next Matariki.

We noticed the lush rainbow silver beet growing in the Mara Kai, so Ms Daniel picked the biggest leaves for us to try.  We ripped up the giant leaves and steamed briefly in an electric fry pan with salt. So easy!

Oisin "I've never eaten it before. It was so good" 

Lela "It was salty and soft"

Andrew "The stalk was like celery" 

Rael "I learnt silver beet is easy to grow" 

Charlotte "Food is fresher from the garden"